Day 218: What would you call this?
The other morning afternoon when I was taking a shower just after putting Abigail down for a nap, strange thoughts went through my head. You know sometimes how something echoes a certain way and sounds like something else? Well if you don’t, it happens to me often. (No I’m not crazy. I just easily freak out. I don’t watch many scary movies.)
So near the end of the shower, I could have sworn I heard Abigail crying a screechy I’m freaked out kind of cry. Then I pictured her freaked out face in my head. Then I pictured a crazy man with long hair and a long scraggly beard hovering over her. Then I pictured said man taking Abby. Then I pictured me walking into her room to find her crib empty.
Of course, my shower ended right then and there. I went to her room, saw she was sleeping peacefully, and breathed a deep sigh of relief.
What would you call this? Anxiety? Crazy? Overreaction?
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Overactive imagination? I do this same type of thing all the time, so if it is a touch of the crazy, you’re not alone.
Anxiety. In fact I know of someone who was diagnosed with PPA because of visions such as this.
I’d run it past your Dr. but I have similar thoughts at times. I think it’s stress, overwhelming stress that might cause this. You have a lot coming up, a lot still going on. But talk to a professional just to be sure. ((hugs))
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Sounds like stress with a touch of anxiety. If you start feeling like there is just an overwhelming amount of danger everywhere, call your doctor. For me, the breaking point was when I literally started picturing everything going wrong. Like picking J up was suddenly VERY dangerous.
Metta. I think you call that normal….um, yeah, normal, that’s right! Okay maybe it is craziety (couldn’t decide between crazy and anxiety so I had to go with both!) But I SO do the same thing and I am on kid number three. Don’t know what becoming a mommy has done to me, but now I have an amazing imagination when it comes to the distasters that could occur! Good to know I’m not alone. Gotta run….think I hear something….
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9 August 2010 at 8:28 am #
I thought that happened to everyone! For the first few weeks of Baby Evan’s life I would hear him crying EVERY TIME I tried to sleep…it ended up being the sound of cars going past the house. Which, now, don’t sound ANYTHING like a baby crying but kept me from sleeping for months. Now it happens mostly in the shower. Not the scary baby-napping part, just the phantom crying though.
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